Watchlist should show prior unseen revision to a page when filter(s) hide the current revision (Community Wishlist/W410)
First, note that the scenario described in this wish involves the Watchlist preference "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" not being checked.
See phab:T11790 - created in 2007, and followed up by a wish in 2016 that was well received.
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As a patroller, I want to hide certain edits from my Watchlist, while still being able to see any previous edits which occurred, so that I can better monitor changes on my project.On Special:Watchlist, by default users only see the most recent edit to pages they have watched. Sometimes, however, they don't want to see edits by certain kinds of users, such as bots, or edits marked as 'minor'. Currently, if users filter their Watchlist to remove certain edits, if a page has that kind of edit as its most recent, it simply does not display in their Watchlist at all, instead of displaying the most recent non-filtered edit. This is undesirable, because edits can easily be missed if a subsequent edit is filtered out by a user's configured preferences. A vandal could, for example, vandalise a page, and then make a subsequent minor edit, and users who filter out minor edits would not see their vandalism edit. In fact they wouldn't see that any edit had been made to that page at all - it simply wouldn't display in their watchlist.
As far as I know, this issue persists and needs addressing at long last.
Vandal hunters, especially, but also practically any user of Watchlists
- Created: 08:51, 30 July 2025
- Last updated: 10:37, 8 April 2026
- Author: StefenTower (talk)
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